It ’s come to our attention that there are those walking among us who fear the possibleness of see a nest of wanderer nut at the bottom of their banana tree . And so , in thefinest traditionof IFLScience , we ’re here with a PSA : there are no spider egg in your banana tree , and this is not something you need to worry about . Phew .
Arachnid expert Rod Crawford at theBurke Museumin Seattle has already been working overtime to dispel this and many otherspidermyths , so that ’s where we ’ll take our cue : “ There is simply no chance for wanderer egg to get into a banana tree . ”
That seems passably clear - tailor , so it ’s hard to sympathise where this misconception has get along from . “ This seems to be one of the newer urban legend , ” Crawford writes . “ I discover no reference to it from before 2002 , though two newspaperwoman say they heard versions in the recent seventies ; a third person , as early as 1960 . ”
Note the unconventional peeling technique.Image credit: Tozy Datsakorn/Shutterstock.com
Perhaps part of the trouble is that while spidersinyour banana tree are not a naturalistic threat , spidersonyour bananas – or indeed , other yield – are definitely adocumented phenomenon . Brazilian wandering spider , for illustration , have been know to very from time to time hobble a drive in crate of banana , although compositor’s case ofmistaken identityare common . call back : not allmassive spidersare actually dangerous .
Either room , a large , eight - legged beastie with or without a bite that can causehours - farsighted erectionsis improbable to go unnoticed for long . The paranoia about spider ball , on the other mitt , seems to revolve around the estimate of them being hidden in the bottom of the fruit until the unhappy consequence that you bite into them .
Some have even suggest that avoid rogue spiderlings is the intellect monkeys tend to spread out bananas from thebottom up – and if you did n’t know they did it like that , there ’s your fun fact for the Clarence Day . While banana are not a part of the wild monkey diet , when presented with them they ’ll happily go to town as they would with any otherfruit . But unlike most humans , monkeys tend to unclothe from the ending with the black nub , hold up the stalk with their foot for stableness .
Nifty , but nothing to do with arachnophobia . Because again , wanderer eggs ca n’t get inside bananas in the first piazza .
The hypothesis goes that spider lay their eggs in the efflorescence of the banana plant , which then somehow end up plant within the yield as it develops . Leaving apart for a minute the unlikelihood of an ballock gayly chilling at the bottom of a piece of yield until a human Sir Robert Peel it spread and unleashes a flood of newly think of spider babies , flush are just not great place to lay eggs .
Crawford explains that “ banana flowers are narrow tube , ” lend , “ In consumer varieties , the fruit grows from the ovary deep inside without fertilization . ” No egg is surviving that mental process unhurt , even if it were there in the first place . “ Not that eating wanderer egg would cause any harm even if this phantasy were unfeigned ! ” Crawford concludes .
Hopefully that has put your nous at rest . Our advice ? Go ahead and bask that banana – disastrous core , stringy bits , Robert Peel , and all – before thebananapocalypsegets them .
